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17 Cards in this Set
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What Act made it easier to prosecute corporate executives for financial misconduct?
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
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What is a code of moral principles that sets standards of conduct for what is "good" and "right" as opposed to "bad" or "wrong"?
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Ethics
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What is the active oversight of management decisions, corporate strategy, and financial reporting by boards of directors?
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Corporate Ethics
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What is the worldwide interdependence of resource flows, product markets. and business competition?
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globalization
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What is hiring workers and contracting them for supplies and services in other countries called?
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global outsourcing
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What is a controversial side effect to global outsourcing or the shifting of jobs from one country to another called?
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job migration
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What describes difference among workers in gender, race, age, ethnic, culture, able bodiness, religious affiliation, and sexual orientation?
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Workforce diversity
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What is the display of negative, irrational attitudes toward women or minorities called?
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Prejudice
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What actively denies women and minorities the full benefits of organizational membership?
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discrimination
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What is the collective brainpower or shared knowledge of a workforce called?
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discrimination
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what are people called who use their minds and intellects as critical assets to employers?
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knowledge workers
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What operates with a core group of full-time long-term workers supported by others who work on contracts and part-time?
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A Shamrock organization
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What transforms resource inputs from the environment into product outputs?
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an open system
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What is a sequence of activities through which organizations transform inputs into outputs?
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a value chain
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What is the quantity and quality of work performance with resource utilization considered called?
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Productivity
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What is an input measure of resource cost associated with goal accomplishment called?
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Performance efficiency
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What is an output meausre of task or goal accomplishment called?
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performance effectiveness
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